What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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Announcing Exquisite.chat :flan_cheer:

Within the upcoming two weeks, Exquisite.chat will officially be launched. The first iteration will be an XMPP server - in a later phase more services will be added.

It does have a few twists:

  • Uses a hardened setup, powered by both OpenBSD and HardenedBSD.
  • We have our own STUN/TURN setup so you can talk / video with your beloved ones.
  • No logs, full encryption to benefit your (and our) privacy.
  • It is setup in 'high availability' mode. Served from two different datacenters in the Netherlands (our main datacenter, DC1 in Amsterdam, but now adding Rotterdam to the mix) for increased resiliency. So, no clouds (oh hai us-east-1).
  • And some more details that will follow shortly :flan_XD:

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In my humble opinion, hosting instant messaging is something completely different than ActivityPub - due to the instant aspect of it.

With this, availability is a far more important aspect of it all. Hence the high available setup. Ofcourse, backups are just as important, but it shouldn't cause a full service outage in the unlikely event that one datacenter has a blackout.

You have given me your trust - and I want to do just by all of you. No matter whether you are messaging a family member about dinner or blowing the whistle about injustice.

At the moment in the upcoming two weeks when Exquisite.chat will be taking signups, I will be vocal about it. Thank you all - Exquisite has been such an awesome experience from the very start. And continues to be just that. :flan_heart:

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Announcing Exquisite.chat :flan_cheer:

Within the upcoming two weeks, Exquisite.chat will officially be launched. The first iteration will be an XMPP server - in a later phase more services will be added.

It does have a few twists:

  • Uses a hardened setup, powered by both OpenBSD and HardenedBSD.
  • We have our own STUN/TURN setup so you can talk / video with your beloved ones.
  • No logs, full encryption to benefit your (and our) privacy.
  • It is setup in 'high availability' mode. Served from two different datacenters in the Netherlands (our main datacenter, DC1 in Amsterdam, but now adding Rotterdam to the mix) for increased resiliency. So, no clouds (oh hai us-east-1).
  • And some more details that will follow shortly :flan_XD:

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What exactly do they teach at business schools these days?

Wanting to reduce a company's dependency on humans by replacing them with slop machines, which dramatically increases the company's dependency on a mere handful of other companies makes no sense, not even from a capitalist business perspective.

Unless ... of course ... you needed some fancy buzzwords to feed to eager investors. Ah, well, there we have the answer.
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Fedify has just laid out a comprehensive implementation plan for this fep:

https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/issues/288#issuecomment-3971459585

The core idea is replacing HTTP(S) URIs with server-independent identifiers: ap:// URIs that use a Decentralized Identifier (DID) as the authority component, rather than a domain name. An object identified as ap://did:key:z6Mk…/actor can live on multiple servers simultaneously and survives any single server disappearing.

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RE: mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/

I would love to increase the diversity of the F-Droid board.

If you are a woman, agender, non-binary, and you are keen but unsure about nominating yourself (e.g. you doubt that you have the credentials / experience), I will be more than happy to chat / exchange email / Signal messages etc.

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coveralls.io

julian @julian@activitypub.space

<p>So NodeBB tests have been failing for the past few days because <a href="http://coveralls.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">coveralls.io</a> is down.</p> <p>Coveralls is a code coverage bot that is free for open source projects. We integrated it into our workflow years ago and it's been trucking along fine all these years.</p> <p>While coveralls being down technically prevents us from running our tool to launch a new version, we could always just do it manually.</p> <p>Their outage page is here: <a href="https://status.coveralls.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://status.coveralls.io/</a></p> <p>They are on day 3 of the outage and have absolutely no idea when things will come back up.</p> <p>This paragraph is worded curiously: [...]</p>

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@zkatkat thats surrendering the idea of what software should be to the worst actors though, large corporations want software to be irresponsible so its normal for things to fail and not directly their fault, shit like spaceflight computers and most earlier computer engineering id actually say qualifies as such without being 'stolen valor' or what have you, calling it that is succumbing to the lowered standard companies are trying to get away with rather than pointing out correctly that theyre dragging our expectations down to their profit margins so nobody ever even gets the idea of holding them accountable for shit software because 'software is just like this'
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